Combined base and receptacle for toy typewriters or the like



COMBINED BASE AND RECEPTACLE FOR TOY TYPEWRITERS OR THE LIKE July 12, 1932. s. A.THoMPsoN Filed May 4, 1931 ATTORNEY Patented July 12, 1932 UNirglin ,STATES PATENT orrificla sAMUEr. A. rHoMrsoN, oE NEW YoEK, N. y.

COMBINED BASE AND EECEPTAGLE Eon 'roY TYPEWRITEES on, THELIKE i Application filed May 4,

This invention relates to a combined'base and receptacle which, while not necessarily limited to such use, is particularly designed as a base for toy typewriters, such as those disclosed in my prior United States Letters Patents, Nos. 1,138,427 and 1,521,408.V

The outstanding object of the present invention is to provide a combined base and receptacle which embodies but few inexpensive `and simple parts capable of economical production and assembly with each other Vand with the typewriter or other article with which it is associated. More specifically, the invention resides in an article of the indicated character which includes a hollow open-ended body forming a supporting base for slidably receiving and housing a drawer therein, and inwhich said body isso fashioned as to afford a steady supporting base which will not scratch or otherwise mar the supporting surface upon which it is rested.v

The invention further resides in a drawer structure for use in connection with the base which is so fashioned as to avoid buckling and catching of the edge of the drawer in the ends of the base, and which structure permits of the production of the drawer'from an inexpensive material while possessing the req uisite ruggedness. y t

vWith the above recited and other objects in view, reference is had to the following description and accompanying drawing, in which there is exhibited one example or em# bodiment of the invention, while the claims deline the actual scope of the same.

1n the drawing:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of thebase with the drawer in closed condition, and illus-V trating the base detached from the typewriter or other article which it is designed to suport. p Figure 2 is a similar view of the drawer completely removed Vfrom the base.

Figure 3 is an enlarged longitudinal sectional view through the base, taken approximately on the line indicated at 3-3 in Figure 1 and illustrating the drawer partially projected therefrom. Y

Figure 4 is an enlarged transverse sectional 1931. serial No. 535,057.

view taken approximately on the line 4 4 of Figure 1. f Referring to the drawing by characters of reference, the` combined base and receptacle includes a body designated generally lby the reference character A and a drawer desig` nated generally by the reference character B. The body A includes fa top wall 10 and integral depending side walls 11, which walls are formed at their lower ends with inwardly directed marginal flanges 12, also prefer-v ably formed integral with the side walls 11. The walls 10 and 11 and flanges 12 are preferably fashioned from a cheap grade thin gauge of sheet metal and at the juncture of the flanges 12 with the side walls 11, vsaid side walls are preferably offset laterally and outf wardly as at 13, to present internal longitudinally extending guide grooves 14. Thel body A is completed by means of a bottom wall 15, which is preferably formed ofl cardboard or analogous material having bifurf cated opposite side edges presenting upperV and lower furcations 16 and v17. Thebifurcated side edges may be variously produced, either by constructing the bottom wall 15l of two or more plies or byslitting a singleply in a plane parallel tothe upper and lower surfaces of the bottom wall. In anyevent, the furcations'l and 17 are resilient toa degree sufficient to cause the same togrip the flanges V12 and hold the bottom wall in as* sembled relation with the remainder of the body without the necessity of additional fas'- tening means. The width of the bottom wall 15 is such that when assembled with the re mainder of the body the free edges ofthe-v upper furcations 16 snugly extend into the internal grooves -14 formedV by the offset 13, thereby causing the downward deflection or ofsettingof the lower furcations 17to present supportingmargins at the opposite sides for Contact with a supporting surface upon which the base is rested. This affords a steadier supportrfor the base than would be possible if the complete lower surface of the bottom wall rested upon thesupporting surface. At the same time, the non-metallic material from which the bottom .wall is constructed is such as to avoid scratching or 2 j i l 1,867,426

marring of the supporting surface.` The body Y A. as thus constructed is capable of being ecotuck in flaps 28.`

manner of a carton constructed from a single y sheet of cardboard fashioned' toprovl'dean upper wall ,2 0, aside-,wallv2-1, a lower wall 22 and overlapped adhesively secured por-- tionsdening the other sidewall 23and prof vided with integral end walls 24 having the In the Ypresent instance, however, the upper wall is provided with an enlarged rectangular central cutout 25, from the. ends ofwhich cutout portion integral pieces 26 are bent downwardlyparallelto the endwalls 24, and from the free lower ends of-which pieces 26 horizontal terminal slabs 27 extend towardthe end walls to o'verlie the tuck in flaps 28. This, obviously, braces and strengthens the structure of the drawer adjacentV its ends, while the juncture of the pieces 26 with the top wall 2O of the drawer presents a rounded edge 28, precluding buckling and interference with-.the closing movement ofthe drawer by catching of the edge 28 on the open ends ofthe body. Y

From the-foregoing, it will thus be seen thata combined supporting base and receptacle hasbeen devised which may be produced economically and yet which possesses certain obvious advantages and attributes due to the l particular structure thereof. j

What is claimed is: 'Y

l.' In a combined supportingbase and receptacle, the combination of a hollow rectangular'bodyopen at its opposite ends and a rectangular drawer slidably received through said ends and snugly housed by said body, said drawer having an open upper end provided with an inwardly extending continuous marginal flange anddownturned flapsat the opposite ends of the drawer opening bearing respectively on the bottom of the drawer. Y

2. In a combined supporting base andreceptacle, awhollow rectangular body open at its opposite ends and arectangular drawer constructed from a single sheet of material cut, bent, folded and secured to provide a top, bottom, side and end walls, the top wall having a central rectangular cutout dening a continuous inwardly extending marginal flange formed with downturned integral flaps at the opposite ends of the cutout tol bear against the bottom lwall of the drawer wherehousing a drawer, said base including a metall'ictop wall having integral depending side walls and integral inwardly directed flanges at the lower ends of said side walls and a non-metallic bottom wall having bifurcated Side edges receiving and frictionally engag- -ing'said side wall flanges. A

4. In-acombined supporting base and re- Y ceptacle of the indicated character, a hollow y.o penfended body for slidably receiving and housing a drawer, "said base including a' Ametallic toprwall -havingf integral depending rside walls andn integral` inwardly directed flanges 1 at, the lower: ends of said side walls anda non-metallic bottom wall having bifurcated side edges receiving and 'frictionally engaging saidside wall lianges, the lower furcations ofthe bifurcated edges of the bottom wall being downwardly offset to provide spacedparallel supporting ribs adjacent the opposite sides Vof the base.

5. VIn a combined supporting base and `receptacle of the indicated character, a hollow open-ended body for. slidably receivingV andV housing a drawer, said base including a' metallic top wall-having integral depending side wallsV and, integral inwardly directed flanges at the lowerends of said-side walls, said walls being laterally and Voutwardly Y offset at the juncture oftheV flanges thereof and acardboard bottom wallhavingbifurcated .side edges straddling said `side wall flanges and frictionally engaging the same with the upper furcations embraced by the lateral and outward offsets.

y6. In a combined supporting-base and re-- ceptacle of the indicated character, a hollow openeendedibody for slidably receiving 'and housing a drawer, said base including a metallicstop wall having integral depending side walls and Aintegral inwardly directed flanges at the; lower ends of said sidewalls, said walls being laterally and outwardly of'E- set atthe juncture ofthe flanges thereof and a cardboard bottom wall having bifurcated sideedges straddling said side wall flanges andzfri'ctionally engaging the same with the upper furcations embraced by the lateral andV outward offsets, the lower'furcations being downwardly offset to provide spaced parallel supporting. ribs adjacent the opposite sides of the base. c

Signed at New YorlnpinV the county of New York and State' of New York, this 23 dayof" 120 April, D. 1931;

. SAMUEL,A A. THOMPSON.

by to brace the drawer structure transversely y, Y 

